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r/The_Donald now on Lemmy (edit: not anymore) (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies.

In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit and flush it into our timelines.

The instance-admin of [email protected] did not reply to my message. Big instances seem not to defederate with them.

The new TD may not be a success, the point is not to give Nazis a platform like it is happening now. Fans of TD are racists.

Where are the instances that show face against racism?

edit: to contact the admins: @donut @TheDude @smorks

edit2: @TheDude deleted the community :)

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[–] PotjiePig 0 points 1 year ago

Well said. Rise above it and all that. Suppression does not make the problem go away. It just makes it broody and resentful. It's better to tolerate, educate and be mindful and a bit relieved that 7 billion people don't all think alike.

On a similar but different topic, Lemmy and Social media in general should be opt in. We subscribe to our communities we want to hear from and choose to block those that may be unwanted. I think the default to show feeds from 'local' or 'all' is a bit counter productive to good discussion as it opens us up to the noise of everything and requires us to filter out things subtractively rather than additively.

In the ideal world I would like my experience to be tailored to me from the get go. A blank slate and a list to explore, Additive following, and grouping my interests and communities into crafted feeds. Local and All should be options but definitely last options. An instance should be able to tag communities into short lists, topics or hashtags that could be local or across the Fediverse, and we should get a wealth of feed syndications at our fingertips as a launch point to develop our own. Trash like The_Donald should be very easy to just ignore unless you go looking for it.

Hopefully Lemmy will eventually work toward this goal. There's no reason to emulate Reddit so closely.